The BEST episodes of The Dick Van Dyke Show season 2
Every episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show season 2, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Dick Van Dyke Show season 2!
Considered to be one of television's classics, "The Dick Van Dyke Show" centers on the personal and professional lives of Rob Petrie, a writer for the fictional "Alan Brady Show". The non-stop laughs revolved around Rob's relationships with with fellow writers Buddy Sorrell and Sally Rogers, and producer Mel Cooley. At home, we also got to chuckle (and sometimes cry) over Rob's antics involving his wife, son, and neighbors.
#1 - What's in a Middle Name?
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/7/1962
Rob and Laura must explain to Richie why his middle name is Rosebud.
#2 - I Was a Teenage Head Writer
Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 1/30/1963
Thinking his own friends betrayed him in an argument with Mel over a sketch, Rob remembers his first day as the head writer of The Alan Brady Show.
#3 - The Night the Roof Fell In
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/21/1962
Rob and Laura have a terrible fight, after each has experienced a difficult day - and each remember the fight very differently.
#4 - It May Look Like a Walnut!
Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/6/1963
In this classic, Rob has a dream - inspired by a late-night horror movie on TV - involving walnuts, missing thumbs, and a space alien who looks like Danny Thomas.
#5 - My Husband Is Not a Drunk
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/31/1962
Rob falls under a hypnosis spell meant for Buddy - he keeps acting drunk every time a bell rings.
#6 - The Attempted Marriage
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/10/1962
Rob and Laura tell Richie about their attempts to get married.
#7 - Bank Book 6565696
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/17/1962
Rob is surprised to find a bank book in one of Laura's gloves.
#8 - A Bird in the Head Hurts
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/5/1962
Rob and Laura assume Richie's claims of being pecked by a giant woodpecker are just a way of getting attention - until Millie says she's seen the woodpecker herself.
#9 - The Cat Burglar
Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/2/1963
A cat burglar in the neighborhood has Rob and Laura on edge.
#10 - Will You Two Be My Wife?
Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/16/1963
Buddy and Sally find Rob's memoirs and read about the time Rob had to break off his engagement with an old girlfriend before marrying Laura.
#11 - Ray Murdock's X-Ray
Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/23/1963
Rob goes on Ray Murdock's X-Ray where he inadvertently describes Laura as a nut.
#12 - The Two Faces of Rob
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/3/1962
To prove a theory that a wife can't always recognize her husband on the phone, Rob call Laura and disguises his voice, but he becomes obsessed with whether she's playing along with the joke.
#13 - When a Bowling Pin Talks, Listen
Season 2 - Episode 32 - Aired 5/8/1963
Rob needs an idea for a sketch for the show; Richie gives him an idea for a talking bowling pin - unfortunately, Rob doesn't ask where he got the idea.
#14 - Like a Sister
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/14/1962
Rob thinks Sally is falling for the latest guest star on The Alan Brady Show: crooner Ric Vallone.
#15 - The Square Triangle
Season 2 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/20/1963
Rob and Laura are both surprised that the latest guest star on The Alan Brady Show is someone from their past - French star Jacques Savon.
#16 - Hustling the Hustler
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/24/1962
Rob engages in a game of pool with Buddy's hustler brother Blackie.
#17 - Divorce
Season 2 - Episode 28 - Aired 4/10/1963
Rob gets caught in the middle when Buddy declares his intention to divorce Pickles for supposedly cheating on him.
#18 - My Husband Is a Check-Grabber
Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/13/1963
Laura is angry with Rob always picking up the check whenever they go out with friends.
#19 - A Surprise Surprise Is a Surprise
Season 2 - Episode 30 - Aired 4/24/1963
Rob nearly ruins his own surprise birthday party after Laura finds out Rob already knows.
#20 - The Sam Pomerantz Scandals
Season 2 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/6/1963
Rob, Laura, Buddy and Sally must perform in a show for Rob's friend Sam Pomerantz after Rob accidentally injures comedian Danny Brewster.
#21 - The Secret Life of Buddy and Sally
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/28/1962
Rob suspects Buddy and Sally of having an affair.
#22 - I'm No Henry Walden!
Season 2 - Episode 26 - Aired 3/27/1963
Rob and Laura are invited to a dinner party for all the top writers in various fields, but Rob is the only writer in comedy, and is lost in the others' intellectual conversations.
#23 - Somebody Has to Play Cleopatra
Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/26/1962
Dreading the thought of being forced to direct a fund-raising show by Mrs. Billings of the PTA, Rob remembers the previous year's show when he tried to cast the role of Cleopatra.
#24 - Never Name a Duck
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/26/1962
Rob brings home two baby ducks, and Richie becomes very attached to them.
#25 - A Man's Teeth Are Not His Own
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/19/1962
With Jerry at a dentist's convention, Rob is forced to see another dentist after breaking his tooth on a chicken bone.